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Russian security services have their own evasive bin Laden - newspaper
KGB of Belarus prepared gift for Italian Prime Minister
Ukraine’s presidential candidates to be protected round the clock according to Yushchenko’s directive
Russian FSB General was allegedly involved in Viktor Yushchenko's poisoning in 2004
City authorities of Kiev allocated land for building of aprtment block for employees of Academy of Security Service of Ukraine
Latvia’s Security Police have no information on threats addressed to politicians
Radio Free Europe bombing story rises question why Czechs waited until now to reveal the plot
Russian security services have their own evasive bin Laden - newspaper
The only name mentioned by the Russian security services in connection with bombing of the passenger train Nevsky Express, has been a certain Pavel Kosolapov, who is named ‘a Russian bin Laden’ by the Moscow-based daily Moskovsky komsomolets (MK).
The security servcies have his photo and all data about him, and an identikit of his prospective accomplice, however, investigation has not brought any results. Moreover, there is no photo of Kosolapov on police stations stands and on the website of the Ministry of Interior, MK marks. While the FBI counterparts have hang out photos of the searched persons by packs, the website of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) does not have such section at all, as it is classified information, as the paper was told by the FSB Public relations centre.
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Kosolapov’s name emerged after damage of a power transmission line in Moscow suburbs five years ago. Self-made explosives were been found out on some bulwark and the flag of Ichkeria was attached to one of them, MK expands. The FSB operative services received reports that an arms room was found in a nine-storey apartment house in Lyubertsy. The flat’s rent contract was concluded with a certain 24-years-old native of Volgograd area Pavel Kosolapov. The biggest success of the FSB operatives was another find, false documents with photos of terrorists and a copybook with records and a scheme of mining of gas pipelines in Moscow area.
Then the case of the explosion on power transmission link and underminings of gas pipelines were incorporated. Several gas pipelines bombing were taking placearound Moscow in February, 2004.
After a while the FSB managed to find a bus was delivered from the Caucasus under the request of the saboteurs. The FSB operatives consider that it was intended to be filled with explosives and be blown up in a crowded a place in the central Moscow. It became clear that Pavel Kosolapov was the person who rented the apartment under his real name. His bombing partner was a Kazakh national, Taizhanov.
It was found out that Pavel Kosolapov, a former military school cadet, had accepted Islam and taken new names, Abu Aiyad and Muhammad, and in 2001 had left for the Chechen Republic. He reportedly has had training preparation in the camps of Arabian field commanders Abu Khuteiba and Abu-Dzeida as a demolition man, the most elite trade among terrorists. After liquidation of Abu-Dzeida, the FSB operatives found out his notebook with archive. Among the sets of photos there were also photographs of Kosolapov and other insurgents; one of the photos showed Kosolapov drawing a map with a site of gas pipeline undermining. Kosolapov and Taizhanov were declared in search; soon Taizhanov was detained in native Kazakhstan and later he committed suicide in the prison.
Many mass media outlets attributed the organization of bombings in the Moscow underground to Kosolapov. However, the FSB operatives categorically deny this version, MK marks. Then a long time nothing was heard about Kosolapov, until the crash of the Nevsky Express. The version on his participation in this act of terrorism became the priority one, the paper notes.
KGB of Belarus prepared gift for Italian Prime Minister
Today, during the visit to Belarus the Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berluskoni received from the Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko the copies of archival documents on the Italian citizens, prisoners of the WWII in Soviet camps in the territory of Belarus, and materials about the Italians who have been subjected to repression in the USSR territory in the 1930s, news agency BelaPAN reports.
"We always have been aspiring to present our friends a worthy gift,”news agency cites Lukashenko. “As a result of laborious work of the employees of the State Security Committee, KGB, the materials about the destiny of the Italian citizens who were in the prisoners of war camps during the WWII in the territory of Belarus have been collected. The data on ethnic Italians who have been subjected to repressions in the USSR territory in the 1930s have also been collected”.
Lukashenko emphasized that Belarus transferred these documents to the Italian side "in spirit of good will and with a view of strengthening the interstate relations between Belarus and Italy". Similar documents have never before been transferred to Italy, BelaPAN marks.
Ukraine’s presidential candidates to be protected round the clock according to Yushchenko’s directive
The President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko issued a directive on protection around-the-clock of the candidates who are taking part in presidential race, news agency UNIAN reports.
The assignment has been given to the State Protection Directorate (UGO), the Ministry of Interior, the Security Service of Ukraine and other security forces. The local authorities, in turn, have been obliged to help the security agencies in every possible way.
It is the law On Presidential Elections in Ukraine that gives candidates the right to the state protection, news agency adds.
The presidential elections in Ukraine are scheduled for January 17, 2010. Registration of candidates is finished; 18 applicants have applied for the top state post, including the current President Viktor Yushchenko.
Russian FSB General was allegedly involved in Viktor Yushchenko's poisoning in 2004
A certain general of the Russian Federal Security Service was involved in Viktor Yushchenko's poisoning in 2004, radio Ekho Moskvy reports, referring to the head of Law enforcement bodies service of Ukraine’s Presidential secretariat Oleg Litvak. He said that the general of the FSB about whom there is a speech, now "had been living under another surname". The official emphasized that for today in Ukraine there is no law that would enable to achieve deportation of the guilty of the assassination attempt, radio adds.
Litvak also express his view that it would be better for investigators of the case to suspend their activity as "it is not necessary to simulate investigation".
In an interview to IMK, Litvak stressed that he believed that the investigators knew for a long time the customers and executors of this crime.
Litvak thus has noted that the customers of the crime are in other country which is no secret. He also said that one of those who were involved in this case was a General of the FSB of Russia. "He has been living under other surname, instead of the surname of Satsyuk. The others are advisers in other departmens, in the Ministry of Interior or still somewhere. If I was investigating this case, I would lift it up to that horizon to tell the society and the victim, first of all, that executors of this crime are known and would have named their surnames", Litvak marked.
According to the official version, the then presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned by dioxine on September 5, 2004, during the supper at a summer residence of the then first deputy SBU head Vladimir Satsyuk.
City authorities of Kiev allocated land for building of apartment block for employees of Academy of Security Service of Ukraine
The City Council of Kiev has allocated the land in the capital city for building of habitation to employees of the National Academy of Ukraine’s Security Service and National Bank of Ukraine, news agency UNIAN reports.
This decisions was adopted at the City Council session on November 27. Accordingly, 93 and 64 members of the City Council voted for the decision.
Thus, an apartment block for the SBU employees will be erected at 6, Laboratory Lane, 6, in Pechersk district of Kiev. For this purpose it is authorized to build an extension to the existing hostel building, news agency notes.
During civil work reconstruction of this hostel will be carried out. The allocated ground area has a total area of 0.8 hectares and is given in rent to the National Academy of the SBU till 2017.
Latvia’s Security Police have no information on threats addressed to politicians
Despite the growing public dissatisfaction with state power, the Security Police of Latvia currently possess no information on possible threats addressed to politicians, news agency BNS reports, citing the Security Police chief General Janis Reiniks.
In an interview to the news agency, asked whether the riots of January 13 may repeat and whether the law enforcement authorities have made the corresponding conclusions to prevent the recurrence of riots, Reiniks responded that the Security Police had been permanently monitoring and analysing the ongoing social and economic processes, as well as carrying out preventive work to prevent the recurrence of events of January 13, 2009.
The preventive efforts include both monitoring of the Internet and the radical organization activities, as well timely reporting to the State Police and other law enforcement bodies and top officials. In connection with a call to violence published on the Internet on January 13, the Security Police brought a criminal case which is still being investigated.
The Deputy Security Police head Juris Leitietis in an interview to BNS earlier this year said that the number of people who had publicly expressed threats to high-ranking government officials could increase in 2009. During the economic crisis dissatisfaction with the current politicians in power and the financial distress of human activity has been growing, pointed Leitietis.
So far, it has not been established that any of writers of hate mail would be really dangerous and could implement his threat, added Leitietis. Most often the threats are addressed to the country’s leaders and other high-ranking officials, such as ministers. The Security Police do not reveal exact details of how and which officials have been threatened publicly in recent years.
At the same time, it is known that a few years ago the Russian National Bolshevik Party Latvian branch member Benes Ayio released a statement threatening to Riga Regional Court judge Guntars Sturis and top government officials. In 2006, the then Foreign Minister Artis Pabriks received anonymous threats. Two years ago, members of parliament received a letter from several members of former organization, Helsinki 86, which announced that a people’s tribunal had been set up which had sentenced the President, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to highest punishment for encroachment on the territorial integrity of Latvia.
Radio Free Europe bombing story rises question why Czechs waited until now to reveal the plot
AIA reported yesterday on the revelation by the Czech security services that the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered an attack on the Prague headquarters of the US Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty but that the plot was foiled by the country's intelligence services. The case has raised questions of why the Czechs waited until now to reveal the plot, and why the United States did not list it among its grievances when preparing to invade Iraq in March 2003, RFE/RL marks.
In April 2001, Prague expelled an Iraqi diplomat, Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, who was caught monitoring and photographing RFE/RL's Prague headquarters. Five more diplomats were expelled in March 2003, on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, radio adds.
RFE/RL expands that in a statement released today, Jan Subert, a spokesman for the Czech intelligence service (BIS), said agents learned of the plot from a source inside the Iraqi Embassy in the autumn of 2000. Radio says the fresh allegations are reminiscent of earlier Czech claims that Iraqi Embassy officials had met with Mohammad Atta, one of the plotters behind the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States. Those claims ultimately proved to be untrue. According to the September 11 report, US officials have said their records, including bank surveillance photos and cellular phone records, place Atta in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Coral Springs, Florida, in April 2001, around the time the meeting with Ani allegedly took place in Prague.
"We had confirmed information that the old regime was seriously trying to attack [Radio Free Iraq] through its agents in the Iraqi Embassy in Prague, which was a very important headquarters of the Iraqi secret services in Europe," RFE/RL cites Dhia'a al-Dabbas, Iraq's current ambassador to the Czech Republic who was an opposition member living in exile at the time of the alleged plot. RFE/RL began broadcasting to Iraq in October 1998.
US officials declined to comment on the revelations, which were first made public in a report by TV Nova in the Czech Republic on November 29, according to RFE/RL.
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